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  • Published: 22 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141974507
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 656

Doctor Thorne




The new paperback series: Penguin English Library

With three anonymous, contemporary reviews.

'You must give up this mad idea, Frank ... there is but one course left open to you. You MUST marry money'

Dr Thorne, considered by Trollope to be the best of his works, is a telling examination of the relationship between money and morality. It recounts the story of the son of a bankrupt landowner, Frank Gresham, who is intent on marrying his beloved Mary Thorne despite her illegitimacy and apparent poverty. Frank's ambitious mother and haughty aunt are set against the match, however, and push him to make a good marriage to a wealthy heiress. Only Mary's loving uncle, Dr Thorne, knows of the fortune she is about to inherit - but believes she should be accepted on her own terms.

The third book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire.

The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

  • Published: 22 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141974507
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 656

Other books in the series

On Sparta
Love
Annals
Military Dispatches

About the author

Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of his best-loved works, collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. He also wrote perceptive novels on political, social, and gender issues, and on other topical matters.

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